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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

While I do not doubt this happening, nor it being sexist at its core, I find no mention of it on the linked wikipedia article.

EDIT: Ah, it actually links to a now-defunct british spacecentre article in the original TIL with the following quote:

When Svetlana arrived the space station, she was reportedly handed an apron from her male crewmates and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen. But she’s also described in fond terms the flowers she received upon arrival: “They gallantly presented me with flowers they had grown in orbit and those plain flowers in a transparent box were the dearest present to me. We hugged each other, kissed each other, in a word, our meeting was the usual meeting of friends who had not met for a long time.” After this initial meeting she was quickly able to establish a working, professional relationship with her crew.

and there's an '82 NYT article mentioning it here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all notifications go through FCM but all push notifications do as far as I'm aware - which is what the previous comment and the post title are talking about.

It is, in fact, worrying for privacy implications on the one hand and a real monopolizing factor on the other since if you wish to deliver an app which needs to implement such notifications you're using Google's service or constantly drain the user's battery.

There's UnifiedPush which tries to provide an open alternative but so far unfortunately still sees very little adoption.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the hint but I am not entirely sure which icon you are referring to unfortunately.

Is it an icon provided by the application? Otherwise, this is an Android phone (LineageOS to be specific) and I am not sure there would be an Apple sharing icon on it.

 

I love using the voyager Android app to get a quick at-a-glance overview of some (mostly tech) news and articles, but would then like to just quickly queue them into my actual read-it-later app (wallabag) for later offline reading.

So is there a way to directly share a post like the picture below without first opening it in the integrated browser and I just have not found it?

a lemmy post opened in voyager for an article called 'Pipewire vs PulseAusio: What is the difference?'

Similarly, if I come across a useful article linked within a comment instead I would like to be able to do the same thing through a context menu.

a lemmy comment containing a link to a webpage blog article

This is less urgent for me however since I can at least use the 'select text' functionality and just copy the text and paste it in the reader app. A little cumbersome but no big deal.

I am using the Voyager Android app 1.39.0 from f-droid repos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Auto-downloads work wonderfully here and can even be set per-podcast which is such a nice feature.

Not saying this to denigrate your experience but to perhaps soften the 'is horrific' notion into somewhat more of a 'does not work for you' one. Otherwise, I suppose Pocket Casts is also open source nowadays - or has always been and I did not notice? But that was a reasonably good alternative for me as well before I switched to AntennaPod.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I realize this isn't your point but I feel the need to point out that skinheads are not nazis - it is unfortunately a very well working project of cultural appropriation by the racists.

In the scene racist skinheads are mostly referred to as boneheads, a term which I think makes much more sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's interesting that people are surprised at these seatwarmers when they've only been offering indicators as aftermarket upgrades for decades and yet no BMW owner chose to buy them.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

They also automatically inserted affiliate links into your browser bar/ search results until it was discovered and the response was a nipple-touching 'sorry'.

Only found this article on binance on the quick but iirc it affected a couple other pages as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-affiliate-links-crypto-privacy-ceo-apology

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes tenacity is a community fork that happened during the hubbub with the musescore takeover and telemetry additions and doesn't have any of it.

It also has a couple of quality-of-life additions and a few new features but nothing specifically different as of yet. Mostly, it's a good community-lead fork that has some momentum behind it - since it also unifies the developers behind 2-3 protest forks that happened at the same time and I think that's generally (if not a safe bet) a good thing to support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think these are good points - desktop environment will be the most immediately impactful choice; then once you're settled a little into the Linux way you might start making choices about the package manager, eco-system and community philosophy.

But as you said, take your home directory with you and switching or exploring a little isn't a pain at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's kind of my take as well, personally don't really care but that in turn means I also don't really care for a change.

But it also appears like a lot of people espouse the 'who cares about this' with a strong slant of simultaneously defending the status quo. I honestly felt the same when there was the whole master -> main phrasing change in a lot of git repository hosters.